Really Mean Quotes - Page 5

• I don’t really mean what I’m saying.

  David Foster

  Mean

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• How totally banal of you to ask what I really mean.

  David Foster

  Mean, Asks

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• We all press buttons in relationships, in our dealings with people, without thinking what it really means. We all knock along without questioning what kind of situation we're in. We may often be in a very good one, but we don't even appreciate the good situations. We're lazy. Or we're scared. Or we just don't notice.

  Pauline Collins

  Mean, Thinking, Often Is

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• All the crap that we've encumbered our lives with, it's really meaningless.

  Emilio Estevez

  Crap, Our Lives, Meaningless

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• Not in the swing of things but what I really mean is not in the swing of things yet

  Lorde

  Mean, Swings

  Song: Still Sane, Album: Pure Heroine, 2013

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• Awards don't really mean much.

  Uta Hagen

  Mean, Awards

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• Cus was my father but he was more than a father. You can have a father and what does it mean?—it doesn't really mean anything. Cus was my backbone . . . . He did everything for my best interest . . . . We'd spend all our time together, talk about things that, later on, would come back to me. Like about character, and courage. Like the hero and the coward: that the hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

  Mike Tyson

  Running, Father, Hero

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• Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.

  Dale Carnegie

  Life, Work, Mean

  Dale Carnegie (2012). “The Leader In You”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much.

  Anthony Burgess

  Love, Marriage, Sex

  "You've Had Your Time, Being the Second Part of the Confessions of Anthony Burgess". Book by Anthony Burgess, 1990.

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• How often in your life have you been criticized for having the feelings you do?. Did this make you feel invalidated?. How often do you simply stuff your feelings and agree with others, saying yes, when you really mean no.

  Catherine Cardinal

  Mean, Feelings, Saying Yes

  Catherine Cardinal (1998). “The Ten Commandments of Self-Esteem”, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• When people say that animal rescuers are crazy, what they really mean is that animal rescuers share a number of fundamental beliefs that makes them easy to marginalize. Among those is the belief that Rene Descartes was a jackass.

  Steven Kotler

  Crazy, Mean, Animal

  Steven Kotler (2011). “A Small Furry Hope: Dog Rescue and the Meaning of Life”, p.174, A&C Black

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• [I was advised] to read Jordan's 'Cours d'analyse'; and I shall never forget the astonishment with which I read that remarkable work, the first inspiration for so many mathematicians of my generation, and learnt for the first time as I read it what mathematics really meant.

  G. H. Hardy

  Inspiration, Science, Firsts

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• What does this word holiness really mean? Is it a negative kind of piety from which so many people have shied away? No, of course not! Holiness in the Bible means moral wholeness-- a positive quality which actually includes kindness, mercy, purity, moral blamelessness and godliness. It is always to be thought of in a positive, white intensity of degree.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Positive, Bible, Christian

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• Refer me to one atheist who denies the existence of God.... Etymologically, as well as philosophically, an atheist is one without God. That is all the 'A' before 'Theist' really means.

  George William Foote

  Atheist, Mean, Atheism

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• To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.

  Cornel West

  Mean, Intellectual, Suffering

  Cornel West (1999). “The Cornel West Reader”, p.551, Basic Books

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• Throughout our lives friends enclose us like pairs of parentheses. They shift our boundaries; crater our terrain. They fume through the cracks of our tentative houses and parts of them always remain. Friendship asks the truth and wants the truth, hollows and fills, ages with us, and we through it. It cradles us like family. It is ecology and mystery and language - all three. Our grown-up friendships - especially the really meaningful ones- model for our children what we want them to have throughout their lives.

  Beth Kephart

  Friendship, Meaningful, Children

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• Being healthy is feeling the same way as little children feel. Little children are bursting with energy every day. Their bodies feel light and flexible; moving is effortless. They're light on their feet. Their minds are clear; they're happy, and free of worry and stress. They sleep deeply and peacefully every night, and they wake up feeling completely refreshed, as if with a brand-new body. They feel passionate and excited about every new day. Look at little children and you will see what being healthy really means. It is the way you used to feel, and it is the way you should still feel.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Children, Stress, Moving

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Power”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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• Unless the story line carries the scenes, the scenes don't really mean anything.

  George Cukor

  Mean, Stories, Lines

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• It couldn't be a simpler answer. Marriage doesn't really mean anything to me. I feel like in many ways marriage is more for the families of the couple than for the people involved, so I don't gravitate to it.

  Jon Hamm

  Couple, Mean, People

  "Jon Hamm Is a Capital-M Man" by Alex Postman, www.elle.com. August 21, 2009.

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• Many men beg for a job but have no clue what hard work really means.

  Bill Courtney

  Jobs, Hard Work, Mean

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• Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside - it's the filling that really means something.

  Jonathan Krohn

  Party, Mean, Shells

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• He wished someone in the course of history had thought of striking that word and all its derivatives from the English Language - happy, happier, happiest, happiness. What the devil did the words really mean anyway? Why not just the word pleasure, which was far more... well, pleasant.

  Mary Balogh

  Mean, Devil, Why Not

  Mary Balogh (2009). “Then Comes Seduction”, p.230, Dell

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• Every year at this time, an important phrase marks the season: peace on earth and goodwill towards men. It's so common we sometimes forget about what it really means - that we strive for a world without war, a society where we respect and help our neighbors, a place where we protect and uplift our most in need. This isn't a phrase we should live by for one day or one month. It's a set of values that must bond and motivate us every day.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Uplifting, War, Mean

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• When people say that German or any other language is romantic... all they really mean is that they've enjoyed a past in the language

  John Irving

  Mean, Past, People

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• I'll be ready. I'm not sure for what exactly. But maybe that's what being ready really means.

  Holly Goldberg Sloan

  Mean, Not Sure, Ready

  Holly Goldberg Sloan (2013). “Counting by 7s”, p.199, Penguin

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